Women’s Status in the Field of Labour Law in Hungary, through the Instance of Somogy County (1876-1914)
Women’s Status in the Field of Labour Law in Hungary, through the Instance of Somogy County (1876-1914)

Summary/Abstract: The role of women in society is characterized by their positions in their family, economic status, education, employment and political rights and their enforcement. My research on the social situation of Hungarian women starts at the second part of the 19th Century when the extension of women’s rights begun as the result of the civil reforms in 1867. The objective of my research, whose summary is demonstrated in the present paper, is the presentation of the status of women in the field of labour law. In my work, focusing on the examination of legal status of women, I concentrated on the typical female employments in agriculture. The paper focuses on the study of the available documents about female works in the Archives of Somogy. Likewise, the research enables us to make a review of the contemporary and latter literature. In Hungary, women’s employment became more widespread after 1890. The legislation of the Astro-Hungarian Dual Monarchy illustrates well women’s status in labour law of the time. We are going to see that reforms in female education obtained results only by the end of the examined period. Until then women’s role in society was determined by the traditional family-model, their limited educational rights, and especially by the lack of vocational training. In my study I am going to present that labour rights of women were closely connected with their educational rights in the age of Dualism. The present paper also proves that the ambitions of women’s movement to improve women’s situation were only answer to the given situation.

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